Fortune And Humor Govern The World.

Instead Of Considering That The Worst Way To Persuade Or Please Others Is To Try Thus Strongly To Please Ourselves, And That To Listen Well And To Answer Well Are Some Of The Greatest Charms We Can Have In Conversation.

Our Own Distrust Gives A Fair Pretence For The Knavery Of Other People.

Absence Diminishes Mediocre Passions And Increases Great Ones, As The Wind Extinguishes Candles And Fans Fires.

A Man Often Imagines That He Acts, When He Is Acted Upon.

Truth Has Scarce Done So Much Good In The World As The False Appearances Of It Have Done Hurt.